Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-23

! Cornelius Vanderbilt is member OF
the Down Town club, He is worth $780,
| UGO. 600 and is relIgous. 1t is TO Mr.. Van
derbllt's creG:t that be is to build Il splen-
did clubhouse on Forty-third street for
the employees of the railroads that have
their centre in that locality. The Down
Town Club has its building in Pine street.
1T was formerly known as the Old Pine
Street News Exchange, where shipping
men and petroleum brokers assem-
bed and where merchants obtained
ship news. 1t was completely ana ele-
gantly renovated for the purpose of a
clubhouse, but is in dark, narrow street
suggestive in this part of one of the damp
aud contracted thorougniares of ancient
London. The club numbers many distin-
guished members. Gen. B. f, Butler, the
champion of labor when 1t doesn't inter
fere with his cotton mill dividends, is one {;
Col. George Bliss. the keen attorney who
received enormous fees from the govern
ment tor failing to convict the star rOut-
ers; joseph II. Choate, with some wit ana
the prestige Of his uncle Rufus Choate's
great name; Cyrus w. Field, a locomo-
tive In trousers, who laid the Atlantic
cable, did much TO establish elevated rail-
roads In New York, owns a successful
newspaper, and in mis- 9th year has twice
the vitality aud energy of many men Of
40; eX-Mayor William II. Grace, a cum
ming politician in the guise of a merchant,
VINO was stepped upon in the dark while
ne was sChenlng for a denomination and
still has WHY face; William +. Have
meyer, one of the well known millionaire
sugar rcnners; Mayor ADram :. Hewitt,
the lncorruplible statesman whose ac-
ceptancP OF he nomination Of Mayor Of
New l 0rk was stab under the fifth RIB
OF Henry George, to whose honor, be it
hf.f oil .I ,.Ali .,yn1r
to nominate a man whose record 10 unsul-
he'd by the smallest stain; eX- Mayor seth
Low of BROOKLYN, possible factor in the
future OF New YORK State politics. though
not as a"uon-partisan;' Joseph J. O'DOn-
0hue, who has been mentioned at different
times for Collector of the Port and Mayor
OF the city, VINO is worth $2,0Q0,000. who
has done much for BROOKLYN by his East
river ferries, receiving a thousand letters
OF thanks from the ladies, and Who is very
popular wherever he is known; William
" alter Phelps, we'll known in politics,
several OF the well-kn0wn Roosevelt
family, and Elinu Root, the lawyer. ali
these are members. Then there is the
witty William X. IraY0rs OF Wall street.
He is troubled with the ntirmIty OF slut
teriug and has Wall street reputation
Tor wit ON one occasion at banquet he
aud some other brokers were not sutii-
CleullN quiet 10 suit UDe IDEAS OF HfppfletN
held by Judge Hilton, the lawyer, VINO
was by an accident lifted from ooscurlty
by A. T. stewart, the dry goods million
aire, to fortune, and who for some years
continued the traffic In dry goods after
the death of his benelactor. The Judge
tfowned austerely upon the rather noisy
brokers on the occasion referred to, and
raped on the table for silence with the
air Of the descendant of hlndred belted
earis IN his ancestral hall. Trayers heard
the rapping and insinuatingly suffered
out:
"C-C-C-Cashw
This ill-tip'ed allusion to shop was re-
ceived with broad smiles by the irrever-
ent brokers and an awful and freezing
solemnity by Judge Hilton.
James D. Fish, once President OF the
famous Marine Bank, through which Fer
dinand Ward conducted the operations
which ruined Gen. Grant, was formerly a
member, but when he Deca me a convict
his name was stricken from to roll.
OSCAR WILLOUGHBY RIGGS.